Venezuela and the United States will immediately start talks to ease tensions between the two countries and does not support its ouster from a regional diplomatic bloc, US Secretary of State John Kerry said on June 14 after meeting his counterpart from the OPEC nation.

At least 60,000 migrants have died making their way to new countries over the last 20 years, and their families rarely learned of their fate, the International Organization of Migration (IOM) said on June 14.

The United Nations Security Council on June 14 unanimously authorized a crackdown on arms smuggling in the high seas off Libya by allowing the inspection of vessels to seize and dispose of illicit weapons.

Russian President Vladimir Putin will meet UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and UN Syria envoy Staffan de Mistura in St Petersburg on June 16, Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov told reporters on June 14.

VOV.VN - The US suffered its worst mass shooting since the September 11 terror attacks. 

Opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) vice president and lawmaker Kem Sokha again ignored a court summons on June 14 over a case of "refusal to appear", Phnom Penh Municipal Court spokesman Ly Sophanna said. 

An MI2 helicopter belonging to Myanmar’s army crashed and burst into flames in the country’s central region, killing three officers on board on June 14.

Thailand will again play host to the CLMVT (Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Vietnam and Thailand) Forum this year.

The militant group Abu Sayyaf in the southern part of the Philippines killed a Canadian hostage after its ransom demand was not met, according to the Philippine Daily Inquirer.

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is committed to continue to make contributions to the UN Human Rights Council, said the ASEAN Coordinator at the Council at the working session marking the council’s 10 th anniversary in Geneva, Switzerland, on June 13.